Dyumin biography Wikipedia

Dyumin Alexander Vasilievich - Ukrainian singer, performer of the Russian chanson and thieves song. Left early without a father, he was brought up with his brother. He grew up in an ordinary mining village and knew, like most normal boys, the court with all its "charms". In his youth, he was carried away by the work of Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky and Arkady Severny, he fell in love with courtyards and hard labor songs, but Alexander could not get musical education, except for the chords that he knew at the age of fifteen, familiarizing himself with the guitar.

There, the young man received a specialty of a car mechanic. Youth, the first success wrote his first song at 17.

He never considered himself a poet, explaining this by the fact that his song is the state of his soul, which does not always fit into rhyme. In the year, friends-musicians who worked in one of the Moscow restaurants made a tape recorder of songs performed by Alexander, who did not even suspect that his songs were recorded. He just sang his favorite songs in a restaurant at his brother's birthday.

Somehow, the cassette with this record came to Mikhail Circle, which convinced Alexander to record several songs in a professional studio. Some songs performed by Alexander fell into collections manufactured by the Master Sound and the outlet company became interested in the young performer. In the year, the company "Master Sound" released the singer’s debut plate, although Alexander himself never loved the word, calling himself a performer called the "convoy", then the album "Wolf".

Listeners fell in love with the new Count of Chanson. He differed from his colleagues piercing, singing to the limit with a vocal tension, simple, but instantly penetrating the human soul with poems, although Alexander himself did not consider them such, calling them texts, incendiary arrangements. In addition, Alexander, in his work, almost recreated, seemingly, the so-called “tough” thieves song V.

Medyanik called this “hard-chanson” who had gone forever. He tried to sing about what the others were silent about, embarrassed or afraid to sing: about camps, about heavy hard labor, about thieves, about a difficult human fate, about youngsters who fell into places of deprivation. Alexander Dyumin became one of the best -selling artists of the genre, his albums appeared on the shelves of kiosks and shops in the country and beyond.

After the release of the Album "Fairy Tale" Alexander left the Master Sound company and his 4 album "Flowers from Stone" released in November in the company "Classic Company", with which he collaborated even after. In the songs of this album, Alexander retained his strict style, but more responsibly approached the arrangements of song material, the musician found his own unique guitar-original musical style, reminiscent of the music of the rock groups of the early xs, the beloved group of Alexander Pink Floyd may influence.

Alexander Dyumin toured a lot in Russia, near and far abroad. Often participated in charitable actions, attending colony for minors, female and male zones of all regimes with concerts. In connection with a dense touring schedule, Alexander only at the end of the year took the time to record his fifth album "Correct Way". Without a doubt, being one of the leading performers of the Russian Chanson genre, Alexander considered one of his main tasks to convey to the listener in places of deprivation of liberty warmth and let them understand what they were remembered, loved and waited.

At the beginning of the year, the company Classic Company released the long-awaited new album of Alexander Dyumin “Stuzha-Zima”, which immediately got on the air of Radio “Chanson” and won the hearts of the audience. This album has become one of the best albums of the genre in the year. The next album called "Rosa" Alexander Vasilievich released only in the year. The personal life of Alexander from his youth was the riding of a ride and a game of backgammon.

In his private collection, a large number of haze quickly gathered, donated to him by fans of his work. At one time, Alexander Dyumin married. A daughter was born in a marriage. Over time, together with his family, Dyumin began to constantly live in Moscow. Categories Audio.